Crime Statistics for Barrow Hill, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, 2024

There were a total of 65 street level crime incidents in Barrow Hill in January 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barrow Hill, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	37
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Burglary	3
Public Order	3
Other Theft	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	65

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Barrow Hill. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Barrow Hill

We've taken the ten nearest places to Barrow Hill and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Barrow Hill has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Hollingwood (0.62 miles)	102
Brimington (1.39 miles)	95
Brimington Common (1.96 miles)	90
New Brimington (0.88 miles)	87
Netherthorpe (1.96 miles)	75
Barrow Hill	65
Inkersall (1.96 miles)	55
Inkersall Green (1.96 miles)	55
Renishaw (2.24 miles)	16
Nether Handley (1.39 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Barrow Hill?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Barrow Hill and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Hollingwood	60
New Brimington	49
Brimington	45
Brimington Common	44
Barrow Hill	37
Netherthorpe	30
Inkersall	25
Inkersall Green	25
Renishaw	9
Nether Handley	4

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Barrow Hill?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Barrow Hill to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Barrow Hill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barrow Hill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Barrow Hill is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Helen's	49
2	Moor	47
3	Middlecroft and Poolsbrook	41
4	Lowgates and Woodthorpe	37
5	Eckington South & Renishaw	30
6	Old Whittington	30
7	Barrow Hill and New Whittington	29
8	Brimington North	27
9	Hollingwood and Inkersall	23
10	Dunston	20
11	Brimington South	15

Which road in Barrow Hill has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Barrow Hill with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Brearley Street.